[GEODE-6914] Switch the XML parser from libxml to xerces

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.10.0
• Component/s: native client
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Matthew Reddington
• Created: 25/Jun/19 18:55
• Updated: 29/Feb/20 02:12
• Resolved: 12/Jul/19 14:25

Description

This is becoming a pain point on multiple dev platforms, so we need to switch to something modern.  On MacOS, libxml2 no longer builds on Mojave with out-of-the-box tools, because /usr/include and /usr/lib have been removed from the system.  You can build it by running an installer package that Apple includes with the tools for the time being, but it's going away, and BTW having these directories causes problems with other packages (OpenSSL).  On Windows, the libxml build has a custom build step that runs a javascript file from the command line, so if anything moves the .js file association away from the windows scripting host (many, many applications do this, not least of which is Webstorm IDE), you can't build libxml2 without swapping back file associations manually.  In short, it hurts when we do this, so let's not do this any more.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #501